NEAT!

The 443rd Military Police Company, based in Owings Mills, Md., paraded into the Fort Lee field house yesterday after back-to back deployments to Texas and then Iraq, where soldiers spent eight months guarding a Baghdad prison.

The unit has altogether spent 22 of the past 25 months in uniform, the longest activation of any Army Reserve unit, military officials said.

Now it's back to everyday jobs and family life for the soldiers. And just in time for Christmas.

"It's going to be a ball," said Spc. Rod Harden, a 27-year-old fire inspector from Seat Pleasant, Md. "I get to be home for opening presents and don't have to worry about going anywhere for another two years."